{"id":23626,"date":"2018-12-07T16:35:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23626"},"modified":"2018-12-07T20:26:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T01:26:38","slug":"electron-and-the-decline-of-native-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/electron-and-the-decline-of-native-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Electron and the Decline of Native Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2018\/12\/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps\">John Gruber<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daringfireball\/status\/1071146086474100736\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=18631738\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2018\/12\/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps\">\n<p>In some ways, the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac is that it got so much more popular a decade ago. In theory, that should have been nothing but good news for the platform &mdash; more users means more attention from developers. The more Mac users there are, the more Mac apps we should see. The problem is, the users who really care about good native apps &mdash; users who know <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/design\/human-interface-guidelines\/macos\/\">HIG<\/a> violations when they see them, who care about performance, who care about Mac apps being <em>right<\/em> &mdash; were mostly already on the Mac. A lot of newer Mac users either don&rsquo;t know or don&rsquo;t care about what makes for a good Mac app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One could also argue that the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac was the iPhone.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2018\/12\/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps\"><p>As un-Mac-like as Word 6 was, it was far more Mac-like then than Google Docs running inside a Chrome tab is today. Google Docs on Chrome is an un-Mac-like word processor running inside an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gruber\/status\/1062419383350448128\">ever-more-un-Mac-like web browser<\/a>. What the Mac market flatly rejected as un-Mac-like in 1996 was better than what the Mac market tolerates, seemingly happily, today. Software no longer needs to be Mac-like to succeed on the Mac today. That&rsquo;s a tragedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t miss his <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2018\/12\/electron_and_the_decline_of_native_apps#fn2-2018-12-07\">rant<\/a> about Finder keyboard shortcuts in Mojave.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/25\/the-mojave-marzipan-apps\/\">The Mojave Marzipan Apps<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/12\/is-there-hope-for-the-mac-app-store\/\">Is There Hope for the Mac App Store?<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber (tweet, Hacker News): In some ways, the worst thing that ever happened to the Mac is that it got so much more popular a decade ago. In theory, that should have been nothing but good news for the platform &mdash; more users means more attention from developers. The more Mac users there are, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-12-07T21:35:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"34a4e37a-12df-42d7-b162-b7b83c74b63d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-08T01:26:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ANKTjehLfQtexYre4PHS2PQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1627,458,125,30,32,1609],"class_list":["post-23626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-electron","tag-finder","tag-keyboardshortcuts","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23630,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626\/revisions\/23630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}